A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Divitis, Antonius

DIVITIS, Antonius, or Antoine le Riche, a French composer, and colleague of Mouton as singer in the chapel of Louis XII, who reigned from 1498 to 1515. The following is a list of his works at present known:—(1) A 4-part mass, 'Gaude Barbara' (MS.), in the library at Cambray. (2) A 6-part Credo (MS.) in the Royal Library at Munich. (3) A mass, 'Quern dicunt homines' (of which Ambros gives a description in his history of music), in the 15th book of the collection by Pierre Attaignant of Paris. (4) A motet, 'Gloria laus,' in the 10th book of the collection of ancient motets by Pierre Attaignant (Paris 1530) who has also, in his collection of Magnificats (Paris, 1534), included one by Divitis. (5) A motet, 'Desolatorum consolator,' in 4 parts, in the 1st book of the 'Motetti della corona' (Petrucci, Venice 1514). (6) Many motets for 3 voices in the collection 'Trium vocum cantiones centum D' published by Petreius (Nuremberg 1540). (7) A setting of the words 'Ista est speciosa,' in the collection 'Bicinia Gallica, Latina, Germanica, etc.,' published by Rhaw (Wittenberg). (8) Two chansons, under the name Le Riche, in the collection 'des plus excellentes chansons' published by Nicolas Duchemin in 1551.

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